Replanting attachment for cultivators



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Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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R. O.SUMMERS & W. BOL-INGER. REPLANTING ATTACHMENT FOR GULTIVATORS.

No. 479,998. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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ROBERT C. SUMMERS AND \VILLIAM BOLINGER, OF EUREKA, KANSAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 47 9,998, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed September 25, 1891. Serial No. 406,838. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT C. SUMMERS and WILLIAM BOLINGER, citizens of the United States, residing at Eureka, in the county of Greenwood and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Replanting Attachment for Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in replanting attachments for corn-cultivators, the objects in view being to provide a replanting attachment of cheap and simple construction, that may be readily operated, will automatically cut off, and which by its peculiar arrangement and construction is readily applicable to all the various styles of cultivators.

WVith these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a corn-cultivator, our attachment being applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail in perspective of the attachment. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section. Figs. 4 and 5 are details, respectively, of the oscillating cut-off plate and the bottom plate of the hopper attachment.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In constructing the attachment we provide a sheet-metal cylinder 1,which constitutes the hopper, and fit the same at its upper end with a removable cover 2, through which the corn may be introduced into the cylinder. In the lower end of the cylinder a cast-iron circular bottom 3 is inserted, the edges of the cylinder being riveted to the encircling flange 4 of said bottom. The flange is provided at intervals with lugs 6, that extend above the upper face of the bottom, and opposite slots 7, formed in the wall of the cylinder adjacent to the bottom. A log 8 depends from the flange at of the bottom plate and, having a central perforation, receives a bolt 9, which also passes through and serves to suspend a feeding-tube 10, through which the corn is dropped and fed to the furrow in front of the shovels in a manner hereinafter described. The bottom is also provided adjacent to the lug and over the upper end of the tube with a dischargeopening 11, and projecting from one side of said bottom in a plane therewith, though tangentially disposed,is a rigid arm 12, the outer edge of which is provided with a recess 13.

1 1 designates a circular feed-disk, and the same is provided with a central perforation that is adapted to oscillate upon a stud 15, formed upon the upper side of the bottom plate 3 and concentric therewith.- The feeddisk is inclosed by the wall of the cylinder and the lugs 6 extend upwardly therefrom. An arm 16 extends from the feed-disk through one of the slots 7, adjacent to the arm 12 of the bottom plate, and upon that edge opposite to which the latter arm is notched the former arm is provided with a corresponding notch 17 and also with a perforation 18, to which a wire or string is attached, the remaining end of which leads to the handles of the cultivator within reach of the person following the same, so that by drawing upon said wire or string the feed-disk may be oscillated in one direction, so as to throw its seed-opening 19 into register with the discharge-opening of the bottom. The return of the feeddisk is effected by a rubber band or spring engaged by the notches of the arms of the bottom plate and feed-disk.

A socket or holder 21 is provided with a tuft 22 of bristles, which constitute the cutoff brush, and is located Within the hopper, in which position it is adjustable by a bolt 23, whereby its brush-face may be brought in contact with the oscillating feed-disk for the usual purpose. Such contact may be maintained as the brush wears simply by readjusting the bolt in the perforations 24, through which the same passes.

At intervals the wall of the cylinder is provided with screw-openings 26, the same being arranged in an annular series and serve to receive bolts 27, which are removably passed through bolt-openings formed in a U- shaped metal strap 28. This strap has its eX- tremities laterally bent and perforated to form securing-ears 29, and maybe secured directly to the plow-beam or other suit-able support constituting a part of the cultivator. By means of the annular series of perforations the bolts supporting the strap may be rearranged, so as to change the relative location of portions of the attachment. with relation to the cultivator. If desired, though we do not confine ourselves to the same, we may employ the transverse hopper-supporting bar 29, securing the ears of the hopper-supporting-strap to the center of the same. In such case the bar is provided at its ends with slots 30, extending some distance inwardly, and J -shaped bolts 31, passing through the slots and embracing the opposite cultivators, will serve as an adjustment, so that the attachment is adapted for cultivators in which the shovels vary in their distances apart or relative location.

The operation of the attachment will be well understood from the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, as will also its purpose, the latter being to provide an ordinary cultivator with a cornplantingattachment under the immediatecontrol of the person following the cultivator, whereby in the first plowing of the corn the person may observe where the planter has missed a hill, and by manipulating the wire or cord controlling the feed-disk of the attachment may there drop a kernel, so that the troublesome operation of the farmer carefully going over by hand and replanting is avoided and the whole accomplished at the time or simultaneous with the necessary cultivating operation.

It will be obvious that our attachment is of great simplicity, cheapness, and durability, the parts being readily manufactured and assembled and as readily applied to the various portions of any ordinary cultivator.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. The combination, with the standards of a cultivator, of the transverse connecting-bar having the opposite slotted ends, the J-shaped bolts mounted in the slots and embracing the cultivator-standards, the hopper-cylinder, means for operating the feed-disk,and the U- shaped metal strap embracing the hoppercylinderand having its ends laterally bent to form perforated ears and bolted to the center of the bar, substantially as specified.

2. Theherein-describedcorn-plantingcultivator attachment, comprising a cylindrical hopper and feed-disk-operating means, said hopper having a series of annular perforations, and a metal strap, of U shape, embracing the cylinder, bolts passing through the strap and any pair of the perforations of the cylinder, whereby the strap is adjustable upon the same, said strap being adapted at its ends for connection with the cultivator, substantially as specified.

3. In an attachment of the class described, the combination, with the sheet-metal cylinder and the cast-metal circular bottom having a surrounding depending flange riveted to the cylinder and provided with a tangentiallydisposed arm, of a circular feed-disk mounted for oscillations in the cylinder and provided with a central opening, mounted for rotation upon a stud concentrically located upon the upper side of the bottom plate, and provided with a laterally disposed arm extending through the wall of the cylinder, a spring connection engaging the arm and that of the bottom plate, and a cord leading from the arm of the feed-disk and adapted when drawn to throw the seed-opening of the feed-disk into register with the discharge-opening in the bottom, substantially as specified.

4. In an attachment of the class described, the combination, with the cylindrical hopper formed of sheet metal and provided near its bottom edge with slots, of the cast-metal bottom inserted in the hopper and having lugs extending up in front of the slots thereof, the oscillating feed-disk mounted upon the bottom and provided with a seed-openin g adapted to be thrown in register with the discharge opening of the bottom, and means for oscillating the feed-disk, substantially as specified.

5. In an attachment of the class described, the combination, with the sheet-metal cylindrical hopper and the cast-metal cylindrical bottom provided with adepending perforated lug and a discharge-openin g adjacent thereto, of a seed-tube, a bolt passing through the perforated lug and tube, an oscillating feeddisk having a seedopening, and means for oscillating said feed-disk, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT C. SUMMERS. WILLIAM BOLINGER. NVitnesses:

SYLvEsTER A. PRICE. AMBROSE FULLER. 

